Animating the fantasy-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors

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Join EJ Hassenfratz for an in-depth discussion in this video Animating the fantasy-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors, part of Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects.

- Now to move on to animating our fantasy text…using the MoGraph module.…Since we have our text made with loft nurbs,…or loft objects, we'll need to do a little prepping…on our text before animating with MoGraph Effectors.…So, our first order of business is to adjust…the loft object axis centerpoint so it's in the middle…of all these objects, so when we animate,…it'll rotate around the middle of each of our letters.…So, what we're gonna do is, we're gonna just…grab all of these, and we're gonna copy them all.…We're gonna group them and hide them.…

So this is just our backup.…Because what we're actually gonna do is,…make all these editable.…We can do this by selecting them all and hitting C.…And then, we're just gonna grab each of these elements…and Connect Objects + Delete.…So, now we have our E as one object.…And we're gonna do the same thing and connect these Caps,…Connect Objects + Delete.…And the same thing for the I.…And the C.…Right click, and Connect Objects + Delete.…

So now we have all of our letters as just single objects…

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12/17/2014

Learn to create dynamic Hollywood-style title sequences for movie trailers, using the tools in CINEMA 4D. EJ Hassenfratz shows how to create attention-grabbing text elements, apply textures and lighting, and animate the titles in styles that suit two different genres: action flicks and fantasy films. Then you'll learn how to render the scene and bring the assets into After Effects, in order to composite them with live-action footage and preview the final trailers. These tutorials follow a real-world workflow, used in many of the leading Hollywood production studios.